From WampServer, to Vagrant, to QEMU

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QEMU

As someone who enjoys playing video games, and a recent convert to Linux, I was well aware of the derth of support for games. I was also aware of some of the solutions, one of those being GPU passthrough to this thing called QEMU. QEMU is a fast and lightweight machine emulator and virtualizer. This was of course something that interested me, so I went about exploring QEMU and playing with it. When I first started using it, I was offput by it. No slick UI to use, a myriad of flags to pass it, some flags which even took more options. But when I figured out the right incantation of flags to pass it, it worked, and I noticed its speed in comparison to VirtualBox.

#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 3 social mentions

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Laravel

WampServer was exactly what I needed. Something that would allow me to create a proper web application with a web server, a database, and even OpenSSL, locally on my machine. It even provided a user interface to help with the management of this all, no need with mucking around with configuration files. As time went on my understanding of programming grew, as did my knowledge in the realm of web development. I eventually stumbled upon a new growing web framework that made developing in PHP even easier - Laravel.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #PHP Framework 194 social mentions